(p.1657) In the lifeworld dominated by technology, all matter/energy is taken as a resource, what Heidegger aptly calls the ‘standing-reserve’ [Bestand], and utilised for production.

(p.1660) For Heidegger, this mystery is‘ hidden in the technological world’ and hence ‘humanity on Earth remains in danger of technology so beguiling that calculative thinking remains the only sort of thinking in use, the only sort of thinking that counts’. Only with meditative (rather than calculative) thinking, human agents can release themselves from technological practice and create spaces for new modes of relating, closer to Being itself.

(p.1160) Following Heidegger, there are two basic ways of approaching nature, Hervorkommenlassen and Herausfordern. The first implies that man lets nature reveal itself. Literally, the German word means that humanity does not actively approach nature; rather, she lets nature come out of hiding by itself. Thus, it is a contemplative stance that waits for nature to show what it truly is. By implication, man cannot produce this kind of truth or control the process towards it; it is about meditative thinking and preserving an open attitude. Unfortunately (according to Heidegger), mankind has for a long time embarked on the second way,...

(p.1164) Indeed, Heideggerian-infused notions such as mindfulness and sufficiency could be key concepts for a liberal degrowth vocabulary. They represent a relaxed and, in effect, liberal stance towards life that may yield radical consequences nonetheless e if large numbers of people choose to live and vote by it. Also, note how the recent modernity critique by Rosa (2016) focuses on the impoverished relations of man towards oneself, towards others and towards nature e and thus exhibits similarities to Heidegger. In Rosa's terminology, processes of social acceleration lead to alienation (selfalienation and social alienation, both in spatial and temporal respects). This alienation...